Gambling behavioral addiction with recovering compulsive gambler, Leroy Yegge and later Pulitzer Prize winner, Ryan Gabrielson on his series about controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Humorist, critic and author Joe Queenan talks about his abusive father and an escape from a childhood of poverty in his latest book, Closing Time.

College student, Kevin Roose decided to spend a semester at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University to learn about his conservative Chrisitian peers and he chronicles it all in The Unlikely Disciple.

Are overweight people responsible for global warming? And later, the FDA okays Plan B for 17 year olds.

Illegal wildlife trafficking is worth an estimated $20 billion a year behind drug and human trafficking; Animal Investigators documents this black market business.

Mark Olsen, co-author of Animal Colony: An Allegory for Today’s America thinks that his book will change America just as Animal Farm did. Then later, Rick Phillips with Community Matters says our schools are not safer despite zero tolerance laws.

Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World.

The Sun Climbs Slow by Canadian writer, Erna Paris is the first book to be published in America on the history and making of the International Criminal Court and U.S. opposition to supporting it. Then Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, author of Path of Miracles.

Imagine the coolest swindle in rock ‘n’ roll history with Jason Buhrmester, re telling the story of the Led Zeppelin heist in, Black Dogs: The Possibly True Story of Classic Rock’s Greatest Robbery. Later, is seasteading the new frontier? Patri Friedman with the Seasteading Institute explains.

Journalist and author Misha Glenny investigates the spread of transnational crime since the break-up of the Soviet bloc in McMafia.